Job 19:7 “Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for hel…”

Job 19:7

Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

World English Bible

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

American Standard Version

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

Darby Translation

Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

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Cross references

“I cry”

Lamentations 3:8 Job 21:27 Job 10:3 Job 10:15–17 Job 16:17–19 Psalm 22:2

Lamentations 3:8 · BSB

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Job 21:27 · BSB

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 10:3 · BSB

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:15–17 · BSB

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Job 16:17–19 · BSB

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Psalm 22:2 · BSB

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

“no judgment”

Job 23:3–7 Job 34:5 Job 40:8 Job 9:32 Job 13:15–23 Job 16:21

Job 23:3–7 · BSB

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

Job 34:5 · BSB

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Job 40:8 · BSB

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Job 9:32 · BSB

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Job 13:15–23 · BSB

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Job 16:21 · BSB

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Also

Job 30:20 Job 9:24

Job 30:20 · BSB

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

Job 9:24 · BSB

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

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